lelouch of rebellion
let us set the world on fire
If Code Geass is merely a tale of extreme nationalism, the two opposing forces in the plot - Lelouch of Japan and Suzaku of Britannia - wouldn't have been best friends from two different countries in the past. Due to a twist of fate somewhere, each is now working for the other's home country with the same determination to change the world, though based on completely opposite methods and ideals. Gee, isn't that the best irony since Gundam SEED?
nobody is absolute in their world
When there's a war that took God knows how many innocent lives off the planet, when an army is full of individuals who might have once been the nicest people in their home communities but are now no more than killing machines, you can hardly determine what's right or wrong. What is true justice as Lelouch and Suzaku often speak of, anyway? Because I don't think there's an absolute argument to that in the world of Geass, I've been able to keep up with most of the story with a (hopefully) peaceful mind until now. Why, there has been no side to take since the start!
If Britannia's military government was the main stimulant to all wars in Code Geass, it would also be the catalyst to its potential downfall as more people like Lelouch (or even Euphemia, for that matter) start to question the system. "Glory of today might be sin of tomorrow" - do we need a better reason to assume that Britannia won't stay in power for long? As a result, Lelouch has faithfully followed the quote by trying to destroy everything and start anew. He no longer believed in the world he lived in - they're all fake to him, who's assumably "dead" a couple times already. Meanwhile, what Suzaku is doing proves to be just the opposite: in spite of all the sins he had committed in the past, the world is still alive to him and he would seek no more than improving it while searching for a road of repentance - hopefully with an honorable end. In other words, the one-time best friends are still walking towards a similar road called "the black death". Just how uncanny can their similarities be?
...which is why the important females in their lives are all of the peaceful types. I'm wont to believe that Euphemia was brought into the story for as soon as Suzaku started making more appearances because he needed a place of rest just like how Nunnally is in Lelouch's heart. The boys are silly enough to constantly involve themselves in dangerous events that might change the world, but what else matters when you have a home to return to? There are always difficulties, of course: Nunnally being a princess of no name and Euphemia being an unreachable one, but I believe the boys will try hard to change the situations accordingly.
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